I have a question that I don't know where I can ask it and so I prefer to ask it here.

I submitted one of my paper in an ISI journal in september 2011 for possible accepting and publishing there. Also I needed my paper for defending from my thesis for PHD grade in my university. During this time, I asked the journal for the situation of my paper and they said me that your paper is on the review and referee does not answer. I thought that the referees was reviewing my paper and I was waiting for their comments or revised. BUT after more than two years (about 26 months), the journal answered to me with this sentences "By a QUICK view on your paper, it is not interested for our journal and so we reject your paper" I think this journal could answer earlier to me. Because unfortunately during this time I can not submit my paper in another journal and some authors published my results in another journals. So I want to complain from the journal. But I don't know how I can do this. Please help me. Thanks everyone

I submitted one of my paper to an ISI journal in September 2011. While I was waiting for it, I inquired about its status (I needed the paper to complete my PhD), and the journal wrote back saying that my paper was under review and the referee was not answering. I was thus waiting.

But after more than two years (about 26 months), the journal sent me this:

By a QUICK view on your paper, it is not interested for our journal and so we reject your paper

I think they could have answered earlier. Unfortunately, now my work is still not published and some authors published my results in another journal. So, I want to complain to the journal, and possibly get them eliminated from Thomson's lists. How can I achieve this?